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  • Re-Discovering Nafplio and a Coastal Walk to Arvanitia Beach
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    Re-Discovering Nafplio and a Coastal Walk to Arvanitia Beach

    ByStephanie Banks 8 March 202317 March 2023

    Breakfast at Polyxenia is served by Maria who is sister to Alexandra who checked me into the hotel yesterday. A set breakfast is brought to me at a table in the small dining area. There is the option to also sit outside. Yoghurt with honey, two slices of cake, freshly squeezed orange juice, tea, bread…

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  • Leaving Lesvos and Back to Athens
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    Leaving Lesvos and Back to Athens

    ByStephanie Banks 1 November 20223 February 2023

    After my trip to Plomari I was shattered. I manage to drag myself around the corner to Kalderimi for a ‘dine and a wine’ before heading back. I hit the hay hoping for a good night’s sleep. All was well until around midnight when I was woken by the sound of “thump thump thump” from…

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  • Exploring the Little Island of Psara
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    Exploring the Little Island of Psara

    ByStephanie Banks 2 October 20223 October 2022

    I arrived at my little studio on Psara as the blanket of dusk was pulled over the island. My host Diana showed me around the studio and swiftly departed as fast as she whipped me away from the ferry. The apartment is quite old school. Basic but clean and with everything that I will need…

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  • A Goose Walks Into a Minimarket
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    A Goose Walks Into a Minimarket

    ByStephanie Banks 29 September 202226 January 2023

    It didn’t actually. I just wanted to be able to weave this photo into one of the posts! Sorry. Yesterday CaptainMargaritis drove me to the port. It was a windy day but the sun is back after the grey, overcast day we had the day before. The Psara Glory was a little late leaving Chios…

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  • A Birthday Boat Trip Around the Archipelago of Oinousses
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    A Birthday Boat Trip Around the Archipelago of Oinousses

    ByStephanie Banks 25 September 202215 November 2025

    Today was my birthday, and naturally, I was in Greece—there’s no better place to spend it. I don’t really celebrate anymore; it’s simply another day and a quiet reminder that life is short, which only fuels my desire to squeeze every last drop of travel energy from it. I’d already been on the beautiful island…

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  • Quite a Lazy Day – Grotta Beach and Agia Anna
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    Quite a Lazy Day – Grotta Beach and Agia Anna

    ByStephanie Banks 22 July 20229 September 2022

    Today as always, we ask the Grandadults if they’d like to join us for the day – giving them the option to say ‘yay’ or ‘nay’. We tell them that we don’t have a particular plan in mind but were thinking to catch the bus into town and go and visit the beach Paralia Grota….

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  • Further explorations of Koufonissi and a national referendum.
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    Further explorations of Koufonissi and a national referendum.

    ByStephanie Banks 5 July 201517 February 2022

    Today is the day of a referendum to decide on whether Greece will accept the bailout conditions from the European Union. There is not much evidence of obvious campaigning here – no posters or even queues at polling stations. The only thing we can see is on the TV news. It looks like Oxi has…

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    • Thessaloniki-Sochos Panigiri-Ourounopolis-Amouliani
    • Echoes of Greece Across the Aegean: Istanbul-Marmara Adasi-Canakkale and Troy-Bozcaada-Gokceada-Lesvos-Spetses
    • Kefalonia-Ithaca-Meganisi-Lefkada-Preveza
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    • Thirassia-Anafi-Santorini
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    • Kos-Lipsi-Kalymnos-Pserimos
    • Skyros – Kalavryta – Nafplio – Athens
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    • Crete – Kasos – Karpathos – Rhodes – Nisyros – Tilos – Symi – Chalki
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